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Filling Station
2023-12-06by Elizabeth Bishop Oh, but it is dirty! ——this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black transluc...
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Voyages II
2023-12-06by Hart Crane ——And yet this great wink of eternity, Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings, Samite sheeted and processioned where Her ...
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First Gestures
2023-12-06by Julia Kasdorf Among the first we learn is good-bye, your tiny wrist between Dad's forefinger and thumb forced to wave bye-bye to Mom, whose han...
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First Probe
2023-12-06by Barry Ballard When the earth is tempered, compressed and cooled in the heavens like something somber and inanimate, I wonder if we'll be photog...
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Ulysses
2023-12-06by Lord Alfred Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dol...
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First Things to Hand
2023-12-06by Robert Pinsky In the skull kept on the desk. In the spider-pod in the dust. Or nowhere. In milkmaids, in loaves, Or nowhere. And if Socrates leaves...
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Unappreciated Butterfly
2023-12-06by Michael Burkard I think I was on a balcony overlooking the whole thing. ——Yusef Komunyakaa "April Fool's Day" No soon, no...
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Fisherman
2023-12-06by Kurt Brown A man spends his whole life fishing in himself for something grand. It's like some lost lunker, big enough to break all records. But...
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Unbehold
2023-12-06by Bruce Beasley Lord Nelson's hand, blasted off by musket-fire at Tenerife, stayed clutched into a fist in the gap below his stump, the unbeholda...
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Fishing in Winter
2023-12-06by Ralph Burns A man staring at a small lake sees His father cast light line out over The willows. He's forgotten his Father has been dead for two...